Highlights
BPD awards 3 officers with Women Police of the Year
Photo: (l-r) Myrna Pena, Carmella Cacho, and Shanice Bevans; BPD Female Police of the...
Suicide on the rise!
Photo: Iveth Quintanilla, Mental Health Coordinator
by Charles Gladden
BELMOPAN, Wed. Mar. 20, 2024
Since entering the...
NCA launches 8-year Strategic Plan
by Kristen Ku
BELIZE CITY, Mon. Mar. 18, 2024
Belize’s aging population, which comprised 6% of...
Belize places Top 40 at Miss World 2023
Photo: Elise-Gayonne Vernon, Belizean contestant
by Kristen Ku
BELIZE CITY, Tues. Mar. 12, 2024
22-year-old Elise-Gayonne Vernon...
American couple wept in court when declared prohibited immigrants
An American couple who entered Belize in a small boat as visitors and wanted to call the Bomba, a village in the Belize District,...
Retired career public officer, Eric Fairweather, passes at 79
Eric Austin Fairweather, whose illustrious public service career spans over three decades, during which he reached the top post of Permanent Secretary, died from...
Antigua’s Starret Greene is new OAS rep in Belize
Since July 1, 2014, Starret Greene of Antigua has been serving as the new representative of the Organization of American States (OAS) in Belize.
Greene...
BTL says Internet problems “under control”
Officials of Belize Telemedia Limited (BTL) told Amandala today that Internet connectivity has for the most part normalized, after customers last week experienced a...
CARICOM discuss Belize-Guatemala roadmap and reparations from Europe
Leaders endorse new 5-year Strategic Plan to build resiliency
Belize’s Foreign Minister and Attorney General Wilfred Elrington represented Belize at the 35th Regular Meeting of...
Cancer boutique for Belizean women
The physical changes that women experience as a result of cancer-fighting procedures can be very difficult to cope with, but the Belize Cancer Society...
$78,000 stolen at BSCFA
5 staffers implicated, 1 terminated
An external audit of the funds of the Belize Sugar Cane Farmers Association (BSCFA) unearthed the embezzlement of over $78,000...
Supreme Court rules against Gary Seawell
Heavily armed Gang Suppression Unit police officers escorted Gary Seawell to the Supreme Court this morning, taking up security positions outside the courtroom of...
Farmers help children to plant and harvest rice
The Belize Camping Experience stepped up its fund-raising drive to secure funds to meet the expenses of conducting their summer camps to impact the...
Belize takes over 3 pro tempore presidencies
Belize has assumed the pro tempore presidency of the Central American Integration System (SICA) at the 43rd meeting of the Heads of State and...
Daniel Aguirre’s DNA results still pending
For the last nine months, the grieving family of 2011 KTV champion, Daniel Aguirre, 37, who was believed to have been brutally murdered on...
Life expectancy in Belize now 73.7
Male babies born today can expect to live to the age of 71.1, and females to the age of 76.6
Despite a surge in murders...
Sex-enhancing and slimming drugs could pose serious health risks: Ministry of Health
The Ministry of Health in Belize has issued a public advisory, after receiving notification from the Unites States Food and Drug Administration (FDA), through...
CBA established between CWU and CPBL
This morning, the Pomona Valley in Dangriga was the venue for the establishment of a long standing Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), which was signed...